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Andrew Nemr
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What We Leave Behind
"What We Leave Behind" is a video series by tap dancer Andrew Nemr, the first of which you see above. Andrew wrote accompanying essays throughout the process of creating the videos. Read the first essay, "Coming to Choice", below.
Coming to Choice - Tap Dance Surface
tap board, 3' x 3'
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Andrew Nemr
Arneshia Williams
about"Into the Deep, Unto the New" is an exhibition that navigates the continuum of collective healing from racial trauma.
Hosted by Inbreak and Dea Studios is the culminating exhibition of the 2021 Inbreak Residency. This exhibition is a virtual showcase featuring works by Inbreak residents Andrew Nemr, Steve Anthony Johnson, Liberty Worth, and Arneshia Williams. Into the Deep, Unto the New provides a lens through which we see the impassioned overflow from art as practice to art as community-building in an effort to bravely uncover racialized trauma and to reimagine a post-racialized society. The reception will feature a brief introduction to the exhibition, interactive activities, and a toast to the artists.
The Inbreak Residency is an incubator for artists of any discipline, writers, curators and preachers to foster a brave space that facilitates a raw exploration of art, faith, and race in the United States. Over the course of three months, residents engage in texts, open dialogue, and somatic practice to metabolize themes surrounding racial trauma in the U.S. Each resident is encouraged to reimagine their individual role in generating social healing through self-led community projects using their practice and tools provided by the residency.
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Grand Prize Lux → Consumed
Grand Prize Lux → Terroir
Lux → Travel Design Awards
2017
Applied Arts → Make-Up
Applied Arts → Interior design
Lux → Interior design
2016
Grand Prize Lux → Agnus Dei
Lux → Food Carving
Applied Arts → Food Carving
Lux → Pur Vodka
Lux → Formes et Réflexions
Applied Arts → Shapes
Lux → Le Beurre allume vos aliments
Lux → Les fromages d’ici
Applied Arts → Les fromages d’ici
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Residency Year: 2021
My practice as an artist often begins with a question. When thinking about what a post-racial world could look like, another question came to mind: “How did the world we’re in develop into what it is now in the first place?” Essentially, I wanted to find out how to think about how we got to where we are, before thinking about how to get anywhere else.
In tap dancing, the smallest unit of creation is an individual choice, by an individual dancer. When dealing with a group, the combined choices by all the dancers create the piece the audience ultimately sees. In improvisational performances with one or more dancers, their choices are not planned out and memorized ahead of time. The choices are, however, somewhat predetermined. The dancer’s past training, individual preferences, and ultimately their character fuel the choices they make in the moment. They can almost trust one another to make certain choices because of the kind of dancer they are. Audiences can often begin to see patterns in the performances of improvisational artists of all types. These patterns are the deep grooves made by training, preference, and habit, that are solidified in character, plus or minus some variation.
There is a relationship between choice and impact that is key when thinking about what we leave behind. Looking at our impact is one way to learn about good or bad choices. However, impact is ephemeral, and often simply hidden from us. Further, when set incorrectly, the relationship between choice and impact can lead to manipulation and control flourish. Still, when set in the correct frame, it can lead to character transformation. Unpacking the processes of choice making, the uncovering of impact, and the relationship between the two is the heart of this project – Believing that if we change what we leave behind, then and only then, can the world change..
My practice as an artist often begins with a question. When thinking about what a post-racial world could look like, another question came to mind: “How did the world we’re in develop into what it is now in the first place?” Essentially, I wanted to find out how to think about how we got to where we are, before thinking about how to get anywhere else.
In tap dancing, the smallest unit of creation is an individual choice, by an individual dancer. When dealing with a group, the combined choices by all the dancers create the piece the audience ultimately sees. In improvisational performances with one or more dancers, their choices are not planned out and memorized ahead of time. The choices are, however, somewhat predetermined. The dancer’s past training, individual preferences, and ultimately their character fuel the choices they make in the moment. They can almost trust one another to make certain choices because of the kind of dancer they are. Audiences can often begin to see patterns in the performances of improvisational artists of all types. These patterns are the deep grooves made by training, preference, and habit, that are solidified in character, plus or minus some variation.
There is a relationship between choice and impact that is key when thinking about what we leave behind. Looking at our impact is one way to learn about good or bad choices. However, impact is ephemeral, and often simply hidden from us. Further, when set incorrectly, the relationship between choice and impact can lead to manipulation and control flourish. Still, when set in the correct frame, it can lead to character transformation. Unpacking the processes of choice making, the uncovering of impact, and the relationship between the two is the heart of this project – Believing that if we change what we leave behind, then and only then, can the world change..
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Andrew's practice often begins with a question. The question that drove his project for the Inbreak Residency was, “How did the world we’re in develop into what it is now in the first place?” He wanted to find out how to think about how we got to where we are, before thinking about how to get anywhere else.
His project, What We Leave Behind, is a showcase of six improvisational tap performances that tracks the smallest unit of creation--individual choice, by an individual dancer. When dealing with a group, the combined choices by all the dancers create the piece the audience ultimately sees. In improvisational performances with one or more dancers, their choices are not planned out and memorized ahead of time. The dancer’s past training, individual preferences, and ultimately their character fuel the choices they make in the moment. They can almost trust one another to make certain choices because of the kind of dancer they are.
In this work, Andrew navigates the relationship between choice and impact that is key when thinking about what we leave behind. Unpacking the processes of choice making, the uncovering of impact, and the relationship between the two is the heart of this project – believing that if we change what we leave behind, then and only then, can the world change.
His project, What We Leave Behind, is a showcase of six improvisational tap performances that tracks the smallest unit of creation--individual choice, by an individual dancer. When dealing with a group, the combined choices by all the dancers create the piece the audience ultimately sees. In improvisational performances with one or more dancers, their choices are not planned out and memorized ahead of time. The dancer’s past training, individual preferences, and ultimately their character fuel the choices they make in the moment. They can almost trust one another to make certain choices because of the kind of dancer they are.
In this work, Andrew navigates the relationship between choice and impact that is key when thinking about what we leave behind. Unpacking the processes of choice making, the uncovering of impact, and the relationship between the two is the heart of this project – believing that if we change what we leave behind, then and only then, can the world change.
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